Hood for glove-fingers.



R. N. CARSON.

' HOOD FOR GLOVE FINGERS. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 28, 1912.

1,074,351. Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

ROBERT-NyCARSON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

HOOD FOR GLOVE-FINGERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

Application fiIed March 28, 1912. Serial No. 686,820.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT N. CARSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hoods for Glove-Fingers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to what I term a hood for glove fingers.

It consists of the formation of a supplemental piece of leather to be stitched into the seam around the ends of the fingers in such a manner as to form a hood which is afterward turned backwardly to cover the rear portion of such fingers without other stitching. 7

It also comprises details of construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a view of the hood as cut for use. Fig. 2 is a view of the glove, showing the hood in place and showing the hood on the index finger before the hood is turned. Fig. 3 is a view from the back portion, showing the hood in position on the finger tip. Fig. 4: is a longitudinal section through a finger.

Various reinforcing devices have been used in the manufacture of gloves; these devices being mostly applied to protect the front portion of the glove fingers and palm from undue wear. There is, however, a class of wear which takes place in the handoling of sacks of grain or cement, and barrels and boxes, in which such wear comes almost entirely upon the rear portion of the fingers and over the finger nails. It is to protect the glove from this kind of wear that my invention is adapted.

The hood consists of a segmental piece of leather A, having an exterior periphery, as shown, and the interior portion being cut out, as shown at 2, so that the approaching ends of the leather form extensions 3. The object of thus cutting the leather is so that when the segmental periphery of this piece is stitched with the seam which passes around the ends of the fingers, it will provide a means for taking up the fullness, which might otherwise occur, so that the hood will lie flat when in position. The

edgesof this hood are stitched through the upper circumference of the finger ends with the hood lying upon the front of the fingers. After stitching, it is reversed and turned over so that it incloses and covers the stitching and extends down the back of the fin gers; the open curvature formed by the ex tensions lying upon the back of the fingers. By reason of the fullness having been taken out by the contracted form of these ends, it will be seen that the hood presents a curved lower edge which is not stitched at all to the glove, but which will lie smoothly enough thereon to prevent the entrance of material which might otherwise fill up the space between the hood and the finger. This freedom from stitching at this point, also allows the glove finger to yield and move independently of the hood, thus retaining all its softness and elasticity without any stiffness, which might otherwise appear, while the finger tips are protected without extra stiffening or hardening of the remainder of the glove. This construction also allows the glove to be made of less expensive material upon the back and those parts which are not subject to wear, while the hood fully protects the parts which are thus subjected to wear.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. The combination with a glove, of a supplemental piece having its outer periphery turned inward and stitched into the seam around the end of a finger, said piece extending back over the seam and the back of the finger to form a hood therefor.

2. The combination with a glove, of a supplemental piece having its outer periphery turned inward and stitched into the seam around the end of a finger, said piece extending back over the seam and the back of the finger to form a hood therefor, said hood having its inner end unstitched to said finger.

8. The combination with a glove, of a supplemental piece having its outer periphery turned inward and stitched into the seam around the end of a finger, said piece extending back over the seam and the back of the finger to form a hood therefor, said I In testimony whereof I hzive hereunto hood being cut away to provide extensions set my hand in the presence of two subscribwhich are stitched to said finger and the cuting witnesses.

away portion being unstitched and forming ROBERT N. CARSON. a closure which closure fits the back of the Vitnesses: finger and allows small movements between JAMES MASON,

the back of the finger and the hood. JOHN H. HERRING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. l 

